Word: cannoneering
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Drifting Smoke. In the event, the precautions seemed excessive. De Gaulle arrived promptly at noon in his blue-and-white Caravelle jet airliner, inspected an honor guard as cannon smoke from the 21-gun salute drifted into his face, then climbed into a Rolls-Royce convertible with Greece's tall King Paul...
Government spending is probably the biggest legislative issue of 1963-and Cannon, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, has a lot to say about the Kennedy Administration's record-breaking $98.8 billion budget. Everything from ordering a new missile to building a new mile of highway must wait for action by Appropriations. And Cannon is proud of being a cheapskate with the taxpayers' money...
...great Cannon cross is the U.S. Senate, which he accuses of larding great gobs of cash onto spending bills that the House has cut to the bone. Last year Cannon propelled a resolution through his committee that charged the Senate with profligacy, noting that in the past ten years Senators had restored $22 billion previously slashed by the House. Virginia's Democratic Senator Willis Robertson, no great spender himself, called the resolution "the most insulting document that one body has ever sent to another." As he recalls that uproar, Clarence Cannon's face still fractures itself...
...Never Such a Budget." Cannon is a proud Democrat ("It's the party to save the country"), and he thinks well of John Kennedy ("I'm strong for him"). But those emotions did not curtail his criticism of the President's budget message last January. Said Cannon to his House colleagues: "I have listened to messages from Presidents here in the House for 40 years, but in all that time I have never seen or heard a budget message like this one. And neither have you. Nor has anyone else...
Since then, Cannon's Appropriations Committee has not been notably rapid in sending spending bills to the House floor. When two of the first bills-for the Department of Labor and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare-did clear Appropriations last month, they totaled $5.4 billion, or $309.5 million less than the Administration had requested. That pleased Democrat Cannon. Says he: "Worrying about the party stand on something like that is an inhibition I don't have...